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>>>rest of the worldwoke up this morning
to the stunning news that what we already knew to be a horrible tragedy in that largely peaceful country had turned far, far worse. the total of dead from yesterday's twin attacks in and around
oslo
has climbed to at least 92. most of the dead, teenagers who were systematically executed in a 90-minute-long massacre at an island
summer camp
. the fatal bombing of the
government center
are thought to be an act of domestic terrorism. we also learned today it took police almost 40 minutes to reach the island camp as an apparent single gunman waged his withering attack. with more on the attack and the suspect now in custody, here's nbc news correspondent
martin fletcher
from
oslo
.

>> reporter: norway
is in mourning today, trying to understand. photos of the youth camp taken just before the shooting, as
norway
's prime minister said a
paradise island
that turned into hell. desperate survivors pulled from safety. at least 85 murdered.

>>he was just like going around killing people like it was nothing.

>> reporter: police today said the suspect hunted the victims, aged from 12 to 19, shooting them for
90 minutes
. but when police finally arrived, this is his moment of surrender, no resistance. he had no
police record
.

>>we have not arrested him before or anything like that.

>> reporter: police say in may the suspect bought six tons of fertilizer, similar to the kind
timothy mcveigh
used in
oklahoma city
. it may have been used to make the bomb. after setting off the
car bomb
that killed seven in
oslo
's
central square
, the suspect drove to the island less than an hour away, dressed as a policeman. he told the teenagers he needed to protect them after the
oslo
bombing. he gathered them close and opened fire. as they fled through the woods and swam for their lives, he picked them off one by one.

>>there's a guy with a gun, he was standing there and he was shooting at us. if i start to swim a bit later, we would have been shot. i think we would have been dead now.

>> reporter: the suspect's name is anders baring vevic, just 32 years old. he updated his facebook page, called himself a christian, a conservative, likes hunting. facebook friends, zero. a right winger but with no signs of potential violence. how strong is the right wing here, how big is this pool of people that could produce such a person?

>>that pool of people i would say is very, very limited. what we see here is a rather extreme single incidence rather than something representative.

>> reporter: the maximum punishment in
norway
for any crime is 21 years in prison. if convicted, the 32-year-old suspect will be back on the streets when he's 53 years old. the suspect's lawyers said that the suspect is willing to appear in court here in
oslo
on monday, and explain why he did it. and the lawyers said that the suspect will say that what he did was, quote, atrocious, but necessary. lester?

Under heavily armed police guard, Anders Behring Breivik (left, in red T-shirt) is taken back to Utoya on August 13 to reconstruct his actions during a shooting spree on the island. Breivik is charged with killing 69 people who were attending a summer camp at the lake island after killing another eight people in Oslo with a bomb.
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Breivik travels with police officers on the ferry to Utoya island on August 13. The 32-year-old Breivik described the shootings in close detail during an eight-hour tour on the island, prosecutor Paal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby told a news conference.
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Relatives and friends of the Norway attack victim Tamta Liparteliani gather near a coffin during a funeral in Kutaisi, western Georgia, on August 6. Tamta, a Georgian student, was one of the victims on Utoya island.
(Shakh Aivazov / AP)
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Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg comforts a relative of Mona Abdninur, 18, during her funeral ceremony in Hoeybraeten, near Oslo, on August 2. Abdninur was one of the 77 people killed by Anders Behring Breivik.
(Stoyan Nenov / Reuters)
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A close friend of Bano Rashid, one of the victims of the massacre on the youth camp of the Norwegian Labour Party, walks ahead of her coffin carrying her portrait as they make their way to her gravesite at Nesodden Kirke, south of Oslo on July 29.
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A mourner weeps during the funeral service for Bano Abobakar Rashid at a church in Nesodden, near Oslo, on July 29. Rashid, whose family fled to Norway from Iran in 1996, was one of the victims on Utoya island, where gunman Anders Behring Breivik killed at least 68 people, exactly one week ago.
(Lefteris Pitarakis / AP)
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People pay their respects for the victims in last Friday's killing spree and bomb attack, at a temporary memorial site on the shore in front of Utoya island northwest of Oslo on Wednesday.
(Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters)
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A family drops red roses from their boat into the sea, close to Utoya island, near Oslo, Norway, on July 26.
(Ferdinand Ostrop / AP)
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A sea of flowers and lit candles are placed in memory of those killed in Friday's bomb and shooting attack in front of Oslo Cathedral on Monday, July 25. Hundreds of thousands of Norwegians packed city centres across the country to pay tribute to the 76 people killed in twin attacks last week. Picture taken with fish-eye lens.
(Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters)
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People comfort each other outside Oslo City Hall as they participate in a "rose march" in memory of the victims of Friday's bomb attack and shooting massacre on Monday, July 25.
(Aas, Erlend / AP)
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People gather outside Oslo City Hall to participate in a "rose march" in memory of the victims of Friday's bomb attack and shooting massacre in Norway, Monday.
(Emilio Morenatti / AP)
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Elizabeth Amundsen holds a rose and cries as thousands of people gather at a memorial vigil following Friday's twin extremist attacks on Monday in Oslo, Norway.
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Anders Behring Breivik, left, the man accused of a killing spree and bomb attack in Norway, sits in the rear of a vehicle as he is transported in a police convoy leaving the courthouse in Oslo on July 25. A judge ordered eight weeks detention for Breivik.
(Jon-Are Berg-Jacobsen / Aftenposten - Scanpix Norway via Reuters)
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People stand outside the courthouse where Anders Behring Breivik is due to appear in Oslo on July 25.
(Cathal McNaughton / Reuters)
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A couple react as they pay their respects at a sea of floral tributes for the victims of Friday's attacks, outside the cathedral of Oslo on July 25.
(Cathal McNaughton / Reuters)
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People, including relatives of a victim in the center of the picture, gather to observe a minute's silence on a campsite jetty on the Norwegian mainland, across the water from Utoya island, on July 25. People have been placing floral tributes in memory of those killed in the shooting massacre.
(Matt Dunham / AP)
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People stand in front of the Domkirke church in central Oslo on July 25. The bombing of government buildings in Oslo and the subsequent shooting spree at a political youth camp on Utoya island on 22 July have claimed more than 90 lives with the death toll still feared to rise.
(Joerg Carstensen / EPA)
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French police officers work around the house of Jens Breivik, the father of Anders Behring Breivik, in Cournanel, southern France, on July 25. Anders Behring Breivik is reported to have admitted to Friday's shootings at a youth camp and a bomb that killed seven people in Oslo's government district, but to have denied any criminal guilt.
(Bob Edme / AP)
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Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, left, hugs Queen Sonja as King Harald, right, looks on outside a government building in Oslo on July 24.
(Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters)
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Three roses float in Tyrifjord Lake near a makeshift memorial for the victims of the massacre on Utoya island on July 24.
(Britta Pedersen / EPA)
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Rescue personnel continue in their search for the missing in Tyrifjor lake, just off Utoya island July 24.
(Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters)
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Survivors and relatives of a shooting rampage on the Utoya island mourn following a memorial service in the Oslo cathedral July 24.
(Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters)
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German Marcel Gleffe stands on Utvika camping ground in front of Utoya Island, Norway, July 24. According to news sources, Gleffe, who has a military background, saved up to 30 youths from the Utoya island shooting. Reports state that he was on holiday with his family at a campground across the water from Utoya when he heard the gunfire. He and others reportedly jumped into boats and began ferrying people escaping the island to safety.
(Britta Pedersen / EPA)
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Adrian Pracon, one of the survivors of the Utoya island massacre, speaks from his bed at Ringerike hospital on July 24. He pretended to be dead, and was able to survive with a gunshot wound in his shoulder.
(Steinar Schjetne / EPA)
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A combination of images shows Anders Behring Breivik, the man identified by Norwegian police as the gunman and alleged bomber behind the attack on government buidlings and the Labour party youth camp in Oslo on July 22 . Breivik told police he acted alone in the attack he had planned over many months.
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Utoya island, located 40 kilometers southwest of Oslo, is seen in the background as people light candles on July 23, in memory of the victims of the July 22 shooting spree on the island.
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Members of the police and army carry out searches on a farm rented by Anders Behring Breivik in the small rural region of Rena, 93 miles north of Oslo, July 23. Breivik was arrested after Friday's massacre of young people on a tiny forested holiday island that was hosting the annual summer camp for the youth wing of Norway's ruling Labour party. The 32-year-old Norwegian was also charged for the bombing of Oslo's government district that killed seven people hours earlier.
(Cathal McNaughton / Reuters)
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Family members and survivors react as Norwegian King Harald and Queen Sonja (not seen) arrive to comfort them outside a hotel northwest of Oslo July 23.
(Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters)
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A boat of rescue services is seen near the bodies of victims covered with white blankets resting at the shore of Utoya island following a July 22 shooting spree at the island, west of the capital Oslo, Norway, July 23.
(Kristoffer Oeverli Andersen / EPA)
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The shattered windows of a government building are seen on July 23 in Oslo, following Friday's bombing.
(Vegard Grott / Scanpix Norway via Reuters)
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People gather outside the Oslo Cathedral to mourn and show their respect for the victims of the July 22 shooting at a Norwegian Labour Youth League camp, July 23.
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People embrace inside a hotel where relatives of victims and survivors of the shooting which took place at a meeting of the youth wing of Norway's ruling Labour Party on Utoya island gather in Sundvollen on Friday.
(Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters)
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Emergency services are seen on Utoya island searching for the missing after a shooting took place at a meeting of the youth wing of Norway's ruling Labour Party on Friday.
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A wounded woman is brought ashore opposite Utoya island after being rescued from a gunman who went on a killing rampage targeting participants in a Norwegian Labour Party youth organisation event on the island on Friday.
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A SWAT team aim their weapons while people take cover during a shoot out at Utoya island, some 40 km south west of the capital Oslo on Friday.
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An aerial view of Utoya Island taken July 21. A gunman opened fire on youths at a camp on the island, killing at least nine. Police arrested a suspect, a Norwegian, and said he was linked to the bomb blast in Oslo.
(Lasse Tur / AP)
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Still images taken from surveillance camera footage show the moment the bomb blast struck the Digital Impuls store in Oslo on Friday July 22, as glass shatters and people run out of the store.
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Smoke pours from a building in the center of Oslo, Norway, on Friday, July 22, after an explosion that damaged several buildings, including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents. The bombing was linked to a nearly simultaneous attack on a youth camp northwest of Olso in which a man dressed as a policeman opened fire on young people.
(Thomas Winje ØIjord / AP)
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An injured woman is helped by a man at the scene of the explosion. The blast damaged government buildings in central Oslo, including Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office.
(Scanpix Norway / Reuters)
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